Steve Elville

About Steve

Elville & Associates engages clients in a multi-step educational process to ensure that estate and elder law planning works from inception, throughout lifetime, and at death. Clients are encouraged to take advantage of the Planning Team Concept for leading edge, customized planning. Legal Services Include: Wills, Trusts, Estate Tax Planning, Powers of Attorney, Living Wills/Advance Medical Directives, Medicaid Asset Protection Trusts, Medicaid Planning and Qualification, Estate Administration, Fiduciary Representation, Nursing Home Selection, Guardianships, Special Needs Planning for children and adults, Social Security Disability Income (SSDI), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and IRS tax controversy.

Flexibility in your estate planning is something you either have or you don’t. If you have it, it should be woven throughout all of your pertinent documents – will, trust, powers of attorney, advance medical directive, and more. If you don’t have it, your plan will function like a car with one or two gears, […]

Author: Verena Meiser, Esq., Senior Associate—verena@elvilleassociates.com Again and again, I meet with clients whose estate planning documents list their birthdates, names and social security numbers on the first page. Since there is no need to include a social security number on any estate planning document, the practice of doing so represents unnecessary exposure and […]

This article was written by: Bridgette E. Becker, Esq. bridgette@elvilleassociates.com, 443-393-7696 Revocable Trusts can be extremely effective estate planning tools. Trusts can offer protection to those who you wish to leave assets to after you pass away. When a Will is probated, those listed in the Will receive any bequest outright which may […]

Written by Verena Meiser, Senior Associate, Elville and Associates Non-citizens need to be aware that some of the estate tax planning techniques commonly used for U.S. citizens are not available to them. Here are just some of the estate and gift tax differences an estate planning attorney can address and provide guidance for. (1) Gifting […]

Olivia R. Holcombe-Volke, Esq., Associate- Elville and Associates writes: Recent changes in Maryland law highlight the importance of an ongoing relationship between a trustee and the attorney who drafted the trust document. With the Maryland Trust Act going into effect on January 1, 2015, there are several new statutory requirements with which a Maryland trustee […]

By: Bridgette E. Becker, Esq., Associate Attorney During the holiday season, many people become more conscious of charitable contributions or choose to make their yearly contributions as the calendar year comes to a close. As estate planning attorneys, we counsel our clients that you do not only have the option to give to charities and […]

The attorneys and staff of Elville and Associates are proud to announce the launch of the firm’s new charitable organization – The Elville Center For The Musical Arts. The new Elville Center will be a 501(c)(iii) non-profit corporation that will partner with local and regional businesses such as Music and Arts, schools, and other […]

The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 A wonderful client of mine recently shared a joke with me. I thought the joke so humorous, and later, so applicable to many situations in life, that I feel it bears telling again – here it is. Two men (acquaintances) unexpectedly see each other at […]

Maryland’s new General and Limited Power of Attorney Act – for decades, powers of attorney in Maryland were largely unregulated – evidenced by a dearth of statutory provisions in the Annotated Code of Maryland. Subsequently, among many other problems, banks, brokerage firms, insurance companies, and other financial institutions could refuse to accept or […]

A principle of good estate planning is that there is no “one size fits all” estate plan. Every estate plan should be customized for the particular needs and desires of a family or individual whether or not the estate is “taxable” (in 2012, over one million dollars for state estate tax purposes, or over five […]